Chapter 69: Chapter 63: Lynn’s Bankruptcy Game (Two in One, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival)_3
But Ailoke had preferred he couldn’t figure it out, feeling his heart clench with each number he wrote down; by the time he reached the fifth line, he was almost in tears.
Internally, Ailoke had already secretly started calculating his family’s assets and then discovered something that terrified him.
It seemed like his family was bankrupt…
No, this wasn’t a problem that could be solved by bankruptcy anymore.
Because to fill the last spot in the fifth line, he needed all of fifty-three thousand six hundred eighty-seven Magic Gold Coins!
Ailoke’s mind went blank, and he fainted, knowing he couldn’t make that amount of money even if he became a formal Wizard and worked tirelessly for hundreds of years!
And yet, there was still an entire row left unfilled!
The sudden collapse of Ailoke took everyone present by surprise, Lynn included; he certainly didn’t want to scare someone to death on his first lesson.
After using his limited medical knowledge to examine him, Lynn quickly made a block of ice and placed it on his forehead, waking him up soon after.
Ailoke looked bewildered; he had just had a dream in which he played a game with the professor and had incurred a debt he could never repay in his lifetime…
When he opened his eyes, he was forced to confront a reality he didn’t want to face—this was not a dream, but reality…
“Now that you’re awake, let’s complete the final square as agreed,” Lynn said, patting Ailoke’s shoulder encouragingly.
Ailoke’s face wore an expression uglier than crying, but he had no choice but to sit down, eventually resigning himself to the situation, comforting himself that not being able to afford fifty thousand Magic Gold Coins didn’t matter if it increased to two hundred thousand or five hundred thousand.
It really did matter!
A long string of numbers utterly shattered Ailoke’s mind.
After filling the last square, Ailoke had to count the units with his fingers.
Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred thousands, millions, ten millions, a billion… Ailoke couldn’t bear to count further, but Lynn straightforwardly announced the result.
“It’s three hundred forty-three billion, five hundred ninety-three million, eight thousand three hundred sixty-eight copper coins!”
Hearing this horrifying number, the trainees present were all dizzy, staring at the square table in front of them, unable to imagine that three hundred thirty-three billion copper coins could fit in such a small square!
Johnny’s face also showed an incredulous expression; although she had imagined that the copper coins needed to fill the square must be numerous, she had never anticipated they would be this frightening.
This sum of money, not to mention Ailoke, might even require selling the entire Yiyeta Harbor to gather enough!
A simple square game had instantly given all the Wizard Apprentices a taste of the terror named exponential growth!
Lynn looked at the trainees, who were silently engrossed in the astronomical numbers and spoke solemnly,
“This is the power of advanced mathematics! If someone could transform this power of advanced mathematics into Magic, it would be enough to destroy this planet and even the entire universe!”
Theoretically, folding a paper 103 times would make its thickness exceed the diameter of the observable universe.
Anything that maintains exponential growth will quickly be able to burst the entire universe!
(PS: Wishing everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, today is still two chapters together… new books, everything is sought!)